Working breakfast

My weekends are sacrosanct, two inviolable days that no one should fuck with...but they sometimes do. It's ok, I get over it usually and rarely do I allow someone's nutbaggery to spoil the rest of the weekend. My weekday's though, my working week, is something quite different.

- galenkp -

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I evaluate my work days in three-hourly blocks: 09:00, 12:00, 15:00, 18:00 and 21:00 if I'm working that late permitting changes to the rest of the day should the three hour block not have been used effectively. That evaluation done, a one or two minute process* and I'm away into the next three hour block and a better day. It maximises productivity.

I work through breakfast whether at home or in cafés, hotel rooms and restaurants when away using the time to focus on my day, identifying the big rocks and working scenarios to remove them from my path.

Big rocks, means difficult, onerous or complicated tasks and dealing with them, removing or delegating them, means the rest of the day becomes easier - great for one's attitude and productivity; I feel better when those things are out the way...a difficult phone call to a client for instance.

I prioritise, determine what to delegate, do personally and what can be shifted sideways as unimportant. Why? So I have more control over my day, a strategy and so it doesn't seem uphill all the way to the end. From there I start to work through those things I need to do personally, organising my mind for upcoming meetings and calls and generally switching on, so to speak.

It doesn't take long, I don't sit for an hour or more, fifteen to twenty minutes and I'm done including notes, shooting emails, adding or subtracting items on my daily to-do list and generally getting my head straight...and eating breakfast too.

To me, that's a working breakfast and what it does for my daily productivity is amazing.

It has taken time to hone the process and there's always distractions: Pretty girls, the need for a second coffee, pretty girls...You get the idea. Seriously though, any good businessman must be flexible enough to understand that laser focus may not always be quite laser-ish; this process works well though and starts the day off with the right attitude and with three-hourly check-measure evaluations makes for a great day overall usually.

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I'm out of bed before the sun rises (mostly) just to fit everything in. Before breakfast I've done my gratitude-moment, affirmations, exercises and so on meaning at breakfast I'm pretty much in my working day and starting in this way helps make it efficient and productive.

I'm always interested to see how people start their working day. Do you have a process as I do or play it by ear floating along hoping things work out? Do you delay or avoid the big rocks in your working day or tackle them head-on like me? How do you structure your day and create, improve or nurture your overall attitude within it? If you've got something to say down below in the comments is the place.